Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Alaskan journalist Charles Wohlforth will give a lecture tonight at the Kodiak College. His presentation titled “Nature and Human Nature: Are we capable of the cooperation needed to save the ocean?” will provide examples of how culture, not technology, is the key to solving some of earth’s most pressing environmental problems. He was a guest on this week’s …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT A senate bill that would establish an "advisory council for the preservation, restoration and revitalization of Alaska Native languages," has received a lot of attention from language enthusiasts. Gary Holton is a professor of linguistics at the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. On the language center’s blog, Holton says SB130 could be the …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Today’s guest is Alaskan journalist Charles Wohlforth. He is the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author of The Whale and the Supercomputer. His most recent book, The Fate of Nature: Rediscovering our ability to rescue the earth, was released in 2010. He will visit Kodiak College this Friday to give a presentation titled- Nature and Human Nature: Are …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Today’s guest is Alaskan journalist Charles Wohlforth. He is the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author of The Whale and the Supercomputer. His most recent book, The Fate of Nature: Rediscovering our ability to rescue the earth, was released in 2010. He will visit Kodiak College this Friday to give a presentation titled- Nature and Human Nature: Are …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT After being closed for nearly 24 hours, the Kodiak Safeway has reopened. Store Manage Mike Murray says they decided to be extra cautious.

Andrew Air’s log cabin terminal at Trident Basin on Near Island was gutted by fire Sunday evening. Jennifer Canfield/KMXT photo Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Just before 5 p.m. Sunday night, the City of Kodiak fire department responded to a fire at the Andrew Airways log cabin in Trident Basin. The building was "fully involved" upon arrival and the Coast Guard fire department …

Workers shovel heavy, wet snow from the roof of the Kodiak Safeway. The store closed Monday out of concern over the snow load. Jennifer Canfield/KMXT photo Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Monday morning Safeway management noticed large cracks were starting to form at the top of the building’s inside walls. Several crews were sent up to the roof to start shoveling away the …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Recently departed Kodiak City Mayor Carolyn Floyd has been named to the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame. Floyd moved to Kodiak in 1955 with her husband, Joe. She helped start the Kodiak Community College and served as its president for 18 years. KCC’s library is named in her honor. She then became city mayor in 1993 and helped …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Alutiiq 3SG, LLC has been awarded a 5-year contract with NASA’s Langley Research Center for just over $8.5 million. Alutiiq is a subsidiary of the Afognak Native Corporation. According to a press release, the Alaska Native Corporation will provide "transportation and delivery services, vehicle and equipment maintenance and fleet management, shipping and receiving, materials management and warehousing, equipment …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly got some good news during the borough manager’s report at last night’s regular meeting. Rick Gifford announced that Kodiak Island School District Superintendent Stewart McDonald had received notice that the state would be reimbursing 70 percent of the $76 million price tag on the new high school, which translates to nearly $8 million …